Chapter Summaries

Bai Ze gave Zhang Yuanshan a Pan Peach Hundred Longevity Pill, and Little Meng fought Yao Xinghen after the young swordsman challenged him. Zhang Yuanshan returned home with the pill, giving the Zhang Family a chance to escape its predicament.

• Bai Ze gave Zhang Yuanshan the Pan Peach Hundred Longevity Pill, and Zhang Yuanshan gratefully accepted it.
• Bai Ze revealed that Yao Xinghen had been eavesdropping, and Yao Xinghen entered the tavern and explained that he had come to challenge Bai Ze's friend.
• Zhang Yuanshan introduced Bai Ze and Little Meng, while Little Meng insisted that Yao Xinghen call him Saber Maniac rather than Reckless Vajra.
• Little Meng fought Yao Xinghen with Falling into the Mortal World, causing him to reveal that he loved Song Mingxi, who was to be engaged to Zhang Yuanshan.
• Little Meng teased the embarrassed Yao Xinghen, who fled the tavern.
• Zhang Yuanshan gave the pill to the Zhang Family Ancestor, who expected it to resolve the family's troubles and praised Zhang Yuanshan's connection to Bai Ze.

After secretly studying True Martial Sect’s Dao Birth Dao Destruction inheritance, Li Yu planted a sword-intent fortune in Sword Testing Cliff for Zhang Yuanshan. Zhang Yuanshan triggered the inheritance and a tremendous sword-light phenomenon, drawing the sect’s attention.

• After the Zhang Family Ancestor regained his youth and lifespan from the medicinal pill, Zhang Yuanshan took Bai Ze on a tour of True Martial Mountain while Little Meng stayed behind to practice Blood Essence Nourishment.
• Li Yu used his divine soul to search True Martial Sect, copying its sword-intent inheritance and studying Dao Birth Dao Destruction to refine his Ice River Sword Art.
• Li Yu decided to repay Zhang Yuanshan by secretly planting a sword-intent inheritance in Sword Testing Cliff.
• When Zhang Yuanshan touched the cliff, he received the Dao Birth Dao Destruction sword intent and Sword Testing Cliff erupted with a beam of sword light.
• True Martial Sect members rushed to the cliff and focused on Zhang Yuanshan, while Li Yu pretended to be astonished by the phenomenon.

Zhang Yuanshan obtained Li Yu’s Two Forms Sword Art inheritance at Sword Testing Cliff, making him the True Martial Sect’s treasured disciple and sparking a sect-wide search for more inheritances. After leaving the sect, Li Yu met Little Meng, who reported the benefits of the Blood Essence Nourishment method, and agreed to travel with him to Hengzhou.

• Zhang Yuanshan obtained the Grandmaster’s Two Forms Sword Art inheritance, and the True Martial Sect’s old Daoists resolved to nurture him into a Half-step Law Body so he could pass it on.
• True Martial Sect disciples began searching the sect for other inheritances, while Li Yu left the mountain and decided to refine the True Martial Sect’s sword-art insights into his Ice River Sword Art.
• Little Meng caught up with Li Yu in Xuanwu City and said that the Blood Essence Nourishment method had restored his hair and improved his Golden Bell Shield.
• Little Meng told Li Yu that Zhang Yuanshan’s inheritance would keep him occupied, then invited Li Yu to travel to Hengzhou to meet Qi Zhenyan.
• Li Yu agreed to accompany Little Meng to Hengzhou, which lay along his route to Jiangdong Divine Capital.

Little Meng traveled toward Hengzhou with Bai Ze and encountered the aftermath of a battle between powerful figures before witnessing demons attack Shan Xiumei aboard the ship. As the demons fled, they charged at Little Meng, and Iron Hand Demon struck him with a palm.

• Little Meng and Bai Ze left Xuanwu City by passenger ship and learned that Cui Qingyu's fight with a Mysterious Grandmaster had brought freezing weather to the river.
• After arriving near Hengzhou, Little Meng went to the ship's dining hall and saw Iron Hand Demon and Joyful Demon attacking Shan Xiumei.
• A young man from the Jiangdong Wang Clan intervened, while a drunkard killed one passenger and pursued another into the river.
• The two demons fled after Joyful Demon released poisonous smoke, then Iron Hand Demon struck Little Meng as they rushed past him.

Little Meng killed Iron Hand Demon and Joyful Demon, then decided to join Six Gates to change his unwanted nickname. After finding the mortally wounded Young Master Tang, he took his mask, while Li Yu secretly resurrected Tang in the Resource Library.

• Little Meng killed Iron Hand Demon and Joyful Demon with a single sword strike, then introduced himself as Blade Maniac after Shan Xiumei recognized him as the Gentleman Sword.
• Wang Ce praised Little Meng's swordsmanship, and Little Meng left the dining hall, deciding to join Six Gates to change his nickname.
• Little Meng found Young Master Tang dead on the deck, took his human-skin mask, and pushed the body into the water.
• Li Yu collected Young Master Tang's body, used the Lord God's method to resurrect and heal him, and planned to let him out later.

Little Meng and Bai Ze met Qi Zhenyan at the Huanhua Rice Shop, where they learned that Qi’s cousin had been crippled amid a power struggle between the Huanhua Sword Sect and the Jiangdong Wang Family. Little Meng left to buy food for a gathering, while Li Yu suspected he intended to take revenge.

• Little Meng arrived in Hengzhou City and saw Wang Ce traveling with Shan Xiumei, whose cultivation method involved making others fall in love with her incarnations before abandoning them.
• Little Meng found Qi Zhenyan at the Huanhua Rice Shop and introduced him to Bai Ze, the Ice River Swordsman.
• Li Yu recognized Qi Zhenyan as the Demon Lord’s Successor and reflected on Qi’s revolutionary desire to give commoners the power to resist authority.
• Qi Zhenyan explained that his cousin had been crippled by the Ye Family, which was aligned with the Jiangdong Wang Family in its struggle against the Huanhua Sword Sect.
• Little Meng offered to buy food and left the shop, while Li Yu suspected he was going to kill those responsible for Qi’s cousin’s injuries.

Little Meng returned with Ghost Shadow Sword Li Sui’s sword, revealing that he had killed the Seven Apertures expert in a single strike. Later, Qi Zhenyan, Little Meng, and Bai Ze attended Fifth Master Tang’s banquet at Flower Moon Tower, where Tang Mingyue warned them that it was a trap.

• Little Meng brought back Li Sui’s sword and food, and Li Yu praised his improved strength after he killed the Seven Apertures swordsman with one strike.
• When the Ye Family came to accuse them, Little Meng threatened to make the Huanhua Sword Sect their enemy, and the family fled.
• Steward Lin invited Qi Zhenyan and his companions to Fifth Master Tang’s banquet, and Li Yu revealed that Bai Ze had reached Return to Simplicity.
• At Flower Moon Tower, Little Meng recognized Tang Shu as a Nine Apertures Perfected expert, while Qi Zhenyan identified him as an elder of the Tang family.
• Tang Mingyue secretly warned Little Meng that Fifth Master Tang had allied with the Wang clan and planned to kill the group with help from the four families and a Ye Family killing move.
• Little Meng told Qi Zhenyan and Bai Ze that the banquet was a trap, and they entered the private room without showing concern.

Little Meng and his companions were ambushed by several Nine Apertures experts at a tavern, but they turned the tables with their martial skills and treasures. As the attackers fell, a swordsman revealed a violet treasured weapon and unleashed a powerful sword qi.

• Fifth Master Tang toasted Little Meng, then Tang Shu, a saber wielder, and a spearman launched a coordinated ambush against him while Fifth Master Tang and Steward Lin attacked Qi Zhenyan and another swordsman targeted Bai Ze.
• Little Meng broke the attacks of all three Nine Apertures experts with his Solitary Sword techniques, while Qi Zhenyan used the Hunyuan Treasure Mirror to deflect attacks and freeze Fifth Master Tang and Steward Lin.
• Li Yu flicked the narrow sword attacker through a wall, and Qi Zhenyan urged Little Meng to stop holding back before engaging the saber wielder himself.
• Little Meng killed Tang Shu with a sword thrust and pierced the saber wielder, while Bai Ze froze the spearman by launching a wine cup infused with Ice Qi.
• The swordsman Li Yu had sent flying drew a violet treasured weapon and unleashed a violet-red sword qi with the might of the Exterior Realm.

Bai Ze used the Ice River Sword to freeze an attacker and expose a plot to sacrifice the Ye Family to an evil god. After he froze the Joyful Demon and Iron Hand Demon, Little Meng realized the pair he had killed earlier had been impostors involved in a staged attack on Shan Xiumei.

• Bai Ze unleashed the Ice Soul Divine Light, freezing the precious-weapon swordsman and making snow fall across the city.
• The city’s martial heroes recognized Bai Ze as the Ice River Swordsman, while Young Master Ye San realized his plan to spark a battle between the Wang Family and Huanhua Sword Sect had been disrupted.
• Young Master Ye San refused to abandon his plan to sacrifice the Ye Family, but the Joyful Demon decided to leave with Iron Hand Demon.
• As the Joyful Demon and Iron Hand Demon left the tavern, Bai Ze struck them with icy sword qi and froze them.
• Bai Ze told Little Meng that he had tracked down the pair through the swordsman’s controlled soul and identified them as members of the Heaven’s Gate Sect.
• Little Meng realized that the Joyful Demon and Iron Hand Demon he had killed aboard the ship had been impostors staging an attack on Shan Xiumei.

Young Master Ye San returned to the Ye Family and prepared to blood-sacrifice it, while Li Yu sent the supposedly dead Second Young Master Tang to stop him. Tang confronted Ye San with a powerful saber strike, leaving Ye San shocked by Tang’s strength.

• Young Master Ye San fled the Flower Moon Tower and resolved to recover his strength by blood-sacrificing the Ye Family.
• Huang Zhiqing identified the attackers as members of Heaven's Gate Sect and assessed the devastating losses suffered by Yicheng's Four Great Families.
• The Four Great Families panicked after Li Yu’s intervention thwarted their plan to defect to the Jiangdong Wang Family.
• Young Master Ye San ordered the Ye Family’s blood sacrifice formation activated, while Li Yu sent Second Young Master Tang to confront him.
• Second Young Master Tang appeared alive and struck at Young Master Ye San with the Wave Viewing Post’s River Splitting Saber, displaying Outer Scenery Blade Intent.

Second Young Master Tang fought Ye San, the Thousand Faces Demon, as the evil fiend’s blood-sacrifice threatened Yicheng. After the gathered forces helped destroy Ye San’s body, Bai Ze annihilated his escaping soul, leaving the city safe from the immediate threat.

• A saber strike drew the Three Great Families, Huang Zhiqing, Qi Zhenyan, Little Meng, and Li Yu to the Ye Family, where they discovered a blood-sacrifice formation.
• Huang Zhiqing led the others into the Ye estate, where they found Second Young Master Tang battling the evil fiend.
• Second Young Master Tang revealed that Ye San was the Thousand Faces Demon of Heaven's Gate Sect and had manipulated the families to provoke conflict and sacrifice Yicheng.
• Tang Ren gave Second Young Master Tang the Guanlan Saber, and the assembled fighters attacked Ye San with their treasure weapons and martial arts.
• The group blasted Ye San’s body apart, but his soul escaped and threatened to return; Bai Ze froze and annihilated it with a single sword strike.

Meng Qi and his companions began a Death Mission in a world where monsters ran rampant, arriving at a ruined Buddhist temple. The chapter ended with Meng Qi discovering that the temple was Da Lei Yin Temple, leaving the group facing a terrifyingly dangerous mystery.

• After gaining the nickname Mad Saber, Meng Qi was summoned to Reincarnation Plaza for a Death Mission to survive seven days in a world overrun by monsters.
• Meng Qi met Jiang Zhiwei, Zhang Yuanshan, Fu Zhenzhen, Qi Zhenyan, Ruan Yushu, Luo Shengyi, and Ge Huaien, and the group prepared by exchanging for supplies and monster-repelling treasures.
• The Lord of the Six Paths transported the group to a ruined Buddhist temple, where Ge Huaien divined that every direction was inauspicious.
• Jiang Zhiwei uncovered a bronze temple plaque, and Meng Qi scraped away its grime to reveal the words Thunder Sound Temple.
• Meng Qi recognized the final character as Da and realized they had arrived at Da Lei Yin Temple, despite its shattered Buddha statue and ruinous condition.

Li Yu sent Gu Changqing into the Journey to the West world to help Little Meng during his first Death Mission, while hiding his identity from Ananda. Little Meng and his companions fought off a demon horde, but after killing a Half-step Outer Scenery Wolf Demon, they faced an even more fearsome nine-headed lion.

• Li Yu recognized that Little Meng’s mission could end in disaster, sent Gu Changqing to the Journey to the West world, and gave him a talisman while keeping his reincarnator identity concealed from Ananda.
• Little Meng and his companions prepared for battle when a horde of demons surrounded the ruined temple and charged inside.
• Little Meng, Ruan Yushu, and Zhang Yuanshan combined their attacks to wound and kill the Half-step Outer Scenery Wolf Demon.
• A huge nine-headed lion charged at the group, furious that they had killed its third brother.

Little Meng and the others were nearly overwhelmed by a Nine-Headed Lion, but Gu Changqing arrived and helped them defeat it. After collecting the demons’ weapons, they discovered that Ruan Yushu had a Storage Ring and Gu Changqing had one large enough to hold both demon corpses.

• The Nine-Headed Lion attacked Little Meng and the others with its roar and suction, leaving them close to being swallowed.
• Gu Changqing arrived and struck the lion with his Vast Righteousness Sword, interrupting its attack.
• Fu Zhenzhen, Ruan Yushu, Jiang Zhiwei, Gu Changqing, Luo Shengyi, and Little Meng combined their abilities to kill the Nine-Headed Lion.
• Ge Huaien divined great misfortune, and the group recovered before deciding to collect the demons’ spoils.
• Ruan Yushu stored the Wolf Demon’s hammers and the Nine-Headed Lion’s staff in her Storage Ring.
• Gu Changqing stored both demon corpses, prompting Little Meng to call him the real tycoon.

Little Meng and his companions questioned a dying demon and learned that a mysterious beam had drawn demons to the temple, while the Demon Saint’s old forces were searching for the Great Sages. After discovering their enemies’ hierarchy and that their strongest king was away, they fled the temple with its plaque.

• Little Meng’s group found a dying lesser demon, who explained that a beam of light had led demons to search the temple for the Great Sages.
• The demon recounted the Demon Saint’s assault on Spirit Mountain, the destruction of the Heavenly Court, and her decree to kill practitioners of Ananda’s Breaking Precepts Saber Art.
• Gu Changqing asked about the demons’ leaders, and the lesser demon identified Benbo’erba as their Greatest Great King, claiming he had fought the Great Sage Equal to Heaven for eight hundred rounds.
• Little Meng learned that Benbo’erba was away visiting relatives at Bibo Pool and realized the group had time to escape before he returned.
• Little Meng killed the lesser demon, urged everyone to leave because their location had been exposed, and Gu Changqing stored the Da Lei Yin Temple plaque before they departed.

After demons surrounded the temple and began searching the mountains, Gu Changqing and the others realized the Da Lei Yin Temple plaque might be their chance to escape by reaching Lingshan. Little Meng connected the situation to a message on his jade Buddha: “Where to find Lingshan!”

• Gu Changqing gave the group Breath Concealment Pills, and they followed Ge Huaien's divination east to hide in a cave.
• The group survived the night, but the next morning they found tens of thousands of demons sweeping the mountains in a carpet search.
• Zhang Yuanshan recalled that the demons had called the light from the temple an opportunity, and Gu Changqing proposed that the Da Lei Yin Temple plaque was the key.
• Gu Changqing handed the plaque to Little Meng, who remembered the matching jade Buddha and its message, “Where to find Lingshan!”

Little Meng opened a Buddhist gate into Mount Spirit, but King of Green Waves Benbo'erba followed the group inside and killed Ge Huaien. The group attacked Benbo'erba together, yet his Outer Scenery power overwhelmed them and left them injured on the ground.

• Little Meng used the jade Buddha and the Da Lei Yin Temple plaque to open a gate into Mount Spirit, and the group rushed through as demons approached.
• King of Green Waves Benbo'erba entered just before the gate closed and emerged behind the group in Mount Spirit.
• Benbo'erba impaled Ge Huaien with his steel fork, killing him.
• Little Meng attacked Benbo'erba, then Ruan Yushu, Jiang Zhiwei, Gu Changqing, Zhang Yuanshan, Qi Zhenyan, Luo Shengyi, and Fu Zhenzhen joined the assault.
• Benbo'erba shielded himself with a watery curtain formed by a crystal pearl, then unleashed a wave that struck the group down and left them coughing blood.

Gu Changqing used an exchanged Outer Scenery sword strike to drive Benbo'erba away, then led the group into Spirit Mountain. After crossing a miraculous river that shed their mortal bodies, they passed through a gate and witnessed the Golden Cudgel amid a storm before continuing deeper into the mountain.

• Gu Changqing spent one thousand Virtuous Karma on a Chang Geng Sword Qi strike, severely wounding Benbo'erba and forcing him to flee.
• Gu Changqing explained that the Outer Scenery attack came from a one-use item, and the group buried Ge Huaien before heading to Spirit Mountain.
• Little Meng tested the river with a branch, then used the Da Lei Yin Temple plaque to ferry the group across.
• While crossing the river, the group felt their restraints fall away and saw their mortal bodies sinking beneath the waves.
• The group passed through Spirit Mountain's ruined stone gate and saw the Golden Cudgel amid a storm, while Gu Changqing speculated that it might be protecting the Great Sages.
• Little Meng urged the group to keep moving through Spirit Mountain and hide there until they could return.

Li Yu used Maitreya Great Emperor’s body of faith to stage Amitabha’s sudden appearance on Spirit Mountain, cleansing it and terrifying the great powers watching. Ananda could not calculate the source of the appearance and was left baffled by Fu Zhenzhen’s invocation.

• Li Yu decided to use Maitreya Great Emperor’s body of faith to impersonate Amitabha and unsettle Ananda without revealing himself.
• Little Meng and the others continued up Spirit Mountain while Fathead Fish followed at a distance, and they encountered the corpse of Lord Dangshan.
• Lord Dangshan awoke, and Fathead Fish fled while Little Meng and the others were trapped within the monster’s reach.
• Fu Zhenzhen recited Amitabha’s name, causing a talisman in Gu Changqing’s Reincarnation Space to ignite and summon a colossal Buddha image.
• Amitabha’s Buddha-light cleansed Spirit Mountain, sending its dead bodhisattvas, arhats, and demonic beasts into a Pure Land.
• Ananda and other powerful beings reacted to Amitabha’s appearance, while Ananda failed to calculate its origin and could not understand why Fu Zhenzhen’s invocation had summoned him.

Amitabha appeared at Spirit Mountain but did not intervene when Little Meng killed Benbo'erba, and the Death Mission seemed to end. Li Yu gained Sarira and the complete nine forms of Rulai's Divine Palm, then studied how this world's cultivation realms worked.

• Benbo'erba panicked at Amitabha's arrival, and Little Meng seized the chance to kill him with the Purple Shang Sword.
• Amitabha chanted once, then vanished without acting, leaving Little Meng, Ananda, and the reincarnators relieved.
• Ruan Yushu praised Fu Zhenzhen for summoning Amitabha, while Fu Zhenzhen said she had only recited the Buddha's name casually.
• Li Yu revealed that releasing the Maitreya Great Emperor and delivering Spirit Mountain's dead had earned him many Sarira.
• Li Yu analyzed the Sarira and obtained the complete nine forms of Rulai's Divine Palm, which he planned to use to study this world's cultivation system and refine the Ice River Sword Art.
• Li Yu considered the realms from Exterior to Other Shore and the risks of tracing past and future selves, then decided he had no time to waste.